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without any need, to take purgative and other medicines, to play with the children of householders, to go to another village and send message for his food, and to eat in an angry mood entail food but once in four months.
The ascetic who purchases a pot himself or asks somebody else to purchase it for him, or accepts it even when it is meant for him, borrows and exchanges it or gets it exchanged, seizes it by force, accepts things brought before him but without permission from the owner, hands over things to others without permission from the in-charge, gives broken pots to the handicapped and old hermits or keeps them to himself, does not keep durable and usable pots, to shine them, to make them scented or otherwise, to place them on the live earth or to dry them on live sand or on the roof, cot or pillar, to beg a pot of somebody, to ask for it during the pendency of a meeting etc. entail food but once in four months.
To violate the wishes of an ascetic angrily, to get his feet massaged by a householder, to get the hair cut, to enter the bedroom of a couple, to enter the place where water is kept in jars, to enter a kitchen, to call a good man bad and vice versa, to associate and dine with hermits who left the Order after causing rumpus, to visit ignoble places, to accept food from despicable families, to dine with a householder, to evacuate bowels on a live ground, to make garlands and toys of straw or to keep and play with them, to refuse accommodation to coreligionists, to talk ill of the preceptor to others, to sing songs, to play on musical instruments, to dance, to be avid to listen to the tunes of Viņā, to use a ferry needlessly, to arrange to pay money to the boatman or to use a boat on credit, to get into a ship without permission, to get a ship into water or to take it out, to sit in a ship going up or down to row or in co-operation with the boatman, to close the hole from which water should have flown in or fill a pot and throw the water out to eat in the ship itself, to study in prohibited hours or on the occasions of festivals in honour of Indra, Skanda, Yakša and Bhūta or on forbidden days, to teach scriptures to unworthy persons and to ignore the worthy ones, to teach them to the laity and other religionists entail food but once in four months. He who does not possess the knowledge of this book is not entitled to roam alone.
(21) Mahanišitha-Even though not one of the oldest scriptures it, is the most significant one. The omniscient knowledge is obtained by asking forgiveness of all without any thorn rankling inside. All vicious self-criticism has been explained with apt illustrations. Those who conceal their sins cut a sorry figure. Through the conversation of Gautama and Mahāvīra it has been clarified that those who remain slaves to sensual craving are necessarily immersed in the mire of attachments and possessiveness. Severe self-restraint and exposition of exceptions made Savadyācārya take rebirths. It deals with various forms of atonement. The original book is not intact and there are many interpolations. The sage Nandi
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